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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12650, 7 September 1904, Page 4

The temperature this morning \\a^ '53 deg. in the shade. The baru1 motor stood at 29.7 i). The P.ople's Grocer (Mr C. Carter) advert i-es in this issue some special lines in new goods just to hand. Town and country adveintisors are notified that all replaces for Budget advertisements must reach this office by Tuesday morning in each week to ensure insertion. Mr \e\vton King advertises the balance of Mr J. lrvin's siock of growl's to be sold t«y auction on Saititrday nrixt. rHou^'hoUtms should make a point of attending tl.is sale in order to secure a supply of household necessities at their own j rice* A United Christian Endeavour meeting will be held in the Quecn-stireot Church this evdning at 7MQ o'clock to which the public aro cordially invited. The public tea and meeting takes place on Thursday evening. Particulars wifl be foxind in our advertising columns. This is liow, the other day. a West Coast paper interpreted a <-as-.lt> message stating that Mr WYi^Mvnan. known as the "Quinine Kmi^,*' had thoughtfully left his «l:iught»r Un millions sterling : — "A weight-uiau in Philadelphia, named o,'iinonc King, left his daughter ten million sterling." The counting of the seeds to determine tho winner of Mes/ys Aloft won Bros. Free Guessing Competition will take, pkwe on the Monday evening after the close of the sale, and the result will be announced in th» next issue of tho local papers. Air "\\. Weston (Herald) and Mr f lay lon (News) have kindly consented to attend and officiate as scrutineers. A collision between a 'bus ami a jri^r, driven by a Maori woman happened on tho east side of the Hcnui bridge on Tu<Vlday. The impact caused one of the 'bus horses, a stallion, to kick out, with the result that he put his hind hoofs through the irout boards, just below where a male T>a.s. c .p;'ger was sitting. The Maori woman got a big scare, but was n.--t h.jn.*ud. During' the ensuing, year, _ Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains, 'Wellington, will publish in this journal reliable news concerning the latest fashions in ladies' dress. Fresh subjects will be dealt »with in every alternate ishue, so that the keenest interest may be maintained, and prices will be quoted. Our Jady readers' attention is directed to Messl-s Kirkcaldie and .Stains' advertisement in another column. The Arbitration Court is to sit in Wellington on the (26th inst. to hear all enforcements, interpretations and workers' compensation cases then for hearing in Wellington city : turd also all original disputes 'ilerl on or before December '31st last. The lisi for Ihe city at present comprises one dispute, eighty-two applications for enforcement, and six claims under the Compensation for Accidents Act. A sitting of the Supreme Court opened at Timaru yesterday 1 cfore Mr Justice Denniston, when i imic.ue position for Timaru was disclosed, there being not a single criminal case to deal with. The Sheriff presented his Honor with a pair oc white filk gloves, 'His Honor? fittingly acknowledged the gift, and congratnia-vd the district on its fre.Hom from rrimr. In July last, before Mr Justice Bigham, Mr Joshua Jones brought an action for slander of title with rej!-pt-K-'if to the Mokan estate against Messrs Flower and Hopkinson. The terms of settlement are as follows :— By nonsent, action dismissed with costs, £500 to be paid by plaintiff's solicitors to the joint adcount of defendants' solicitors today (Wednesday, July 27) in settlement of suit on. If the plaintiff or his nominees to be entitled within two years to purchase all the interest of the defendants. Flower and Hopkinson, in the Illokau Estate for £17,000, ar.d thereupon the said .defendants will concur in all necessary proceedings of the plaintiff or his nominees, to enable "plaintiff or his nominees to give a ffood title to the estate, and to determine any existing tenancies thereon. If the pfaintiff or his nominees shall not within two yeails purchase the interest of the defendants, the defendants will, at the expiration of such period, accept in lieu of all their right x.'tille or interests to or in the Mokau Kstate, a mot gage on the estate of £17,000, and the amount of a?iy expenses incurred in the meantime in maintaining the property, such mortgage to be a furst charge upon the estate and to be registered by the plaintiff in New Zealand. Plaintiff's action in New Zealand to lie stayed, each party paying its own cos Us. These terms to be in settlement of all outstanding disputes or questions of any kind. Any question ! arising in connection with this setfcle1 meiit lo be determined by Mr Justice Bigham with liberty to apply. The New Zealand Herafd's correspondent at London hears that a syndicate which a few years ago offered £250,000 for a concession in regard to a part of the coal at the Mokau. arc again negotiating, though, of coulee, the matter has not yet got beyond the inquiry stage.

Captain FJdwin wired at 12.»20 today to 'strong westerly ■winds'; glass rise ; tidqs moderate ; W, modertitu. Tho quarterly mocliug of the Chamber of Commerce will bo held •this evening, at 7.15, in the Borough Council Clmmbcrs. "Is there any euro for hmg-worm in cahes." ftkked Mr R. G. 31ur 4un. of Mr Gilruth in - EkeUl.iiua c>n Saturday. "Yes, tucker!"u as the prompt reply. The Tukapa Football Club's social, to be held on the 22nd instant, promises to be one of the mo.st enjoyable of the'season:- Tickets aro going- off well and the at-t«ndanto wijl bo largo. Th<j J diknagement are doino-everything"-possible to onsuro sueeessT. Overtures, saj-s ilio Vtv.v, haw boni made to one or two g-cntknfcu to i\\\ •the vacanty on the magisterial ben eh at Dunedin, caused by the death of Mr Garew. The salary X."jso is consid cred insufficient to tempt competent man to give up their practice, und OnIv a barrister, can fill the porition. Thorc is .soTiuj talk amono business men in Nelson of asking tho City C mncil to aniqnd- the building regulations ir> tho direction of insisting on Iho construction, of brick instead of wooden buildings m the city in future, or at least to require that brick walls sii all be erocted on both sidos of buildings. Not many moons ago the lion. J. Carroll and party with much ceromoi y "turned the firs-t sod" J,, connection with the erection of Toloqa Hay. brklge. Tho timber has now arrived <»> the acwie. .says (he Poverty Bay Herald, but nowhere can the spot whpro the Ministerial excavation ws \s made be found. Xor can anyone point out its position to the contractors. On Tuesday evening the bore at the petroleum prospecting works was down to a depth of 1570 feet, the stratum being sandstone, which bore distinct indications of petroleum. The sandstone is evidently a partly marine formation. Mr Fair is now approaching the interesting period of the work, when it will be demonstrated whether or not oil in payable quantities can be obtained in this bore. At a meeting of Crown tenants in Canterbury, tho following resolution was carried unanimously :—''That this meeting of Crown tenants unanimously agree that it is impossible for them to successfully farm their lands under the hard and fast rules laid down by the Land Board, and that we cannot farm by Act of Parliament." At a subsequent meeting, despite public explanation by the Commissioner of Crown Lands, the tenants : adhered to their resolution.